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Dr Watson's base pairs

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The application of new technology to sequence the genome of an individual yields few biological insights. Nonetheless, the feat heralds an era of 'personal genomics' based on cheap sequencing.

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  1. Maynard V. Olson is in the Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195-7720, USA. mvo@u.washington.edu,

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Olson, M. Dr Watson's base pairs. Nature 452, 819–820 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452819a

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